As has become our tradition for Yom ha Shoah, Israel and the Jewish world’s annual day of remembrance of the Holocaust (and also on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January), we highlight some of the many monuments that name names — that personalise the victims.
They make us remember that each of the vast number of people who were murdered was an individual — a person, not a number; they in this way keep alive the memory of those who were murdered — and the living Jewish worlds, stretching back generations, that were destroyed.
Some of the memorials consist of long lists of names….Some personalise the dead in other ways. These include the more than 70,000 “stumbling stone” or “stolpersteine”commemorative cobblestones around Europe placed by the German artist Gunter Demnig as a memorial art project in front of the houses of people who were deported.
We have posted some of these images in the past, but it is always important to remember. May the memories of those recalled here, and all the others, be a blessing; may their souls be bound up in the bond of life.
2 comments on “Yom haShoah 2022 — April 28. Shoah memorials that name names, and personalize those who were murdered”
I could not access the Dutch website?
It’s a screen shot. There is no live link on it. I can add it in the caption